half-heard
- a word derived from heard.
Example Sentences
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For many families, it's a familiar scene: heads bent over glowing screens, conversations half-heard and the outside world slowly slipping into the background.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
What’s more compelling than the half-heard table talk of a rock star, the story you have to complete yourself?
From Slate ● May 10, 2016
And because it was not written by Shakespeare, it was to be only half-heard and half-understood.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
She apparently half-heard what the tour guide presented.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2011
At the twelfth I discovered that he had been counting to himself because he began to count aloud in a noncommittal, half-heard voice.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
